Did mom get jail for forcing daughter to fight another girl over Facebook comment?

An Allentown mother who ordered her daughter to fight another middle school student over a Facebook post was sentenced Monday to two years of probation and 40 hours of community service.

Dakkimah K. Beamon, 34, pleaded guilty in November to criminal solicitation to commit simple assault. She was sentenced by Lehigh County Judge William E. Ford.

Beamon was arrested shortly after the April 14 incident near Trexler Middle School. The student told police she was walking home from school when Beamon's daughter approached her and accused her of making a comment about her on Facebook.

Beamon pulled up in a car at 10th and Washington streets, police said, and asked her daughter if the girl was the one who had been making comments. Beamon told her daughter to hit the girl, police said, but the daughter did not respond.

Beamon insisted, court records say, and her daughter punched the girl in the face repeatedly and pulled her hair. The girl suffered a cut lip and her jacket was torn in the attack.

Another girl tried to break up the fight but Beamon stopped her, police said. The mother and daughter eventually drove away.